{"id":202,"date":"2014-11-07T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=202"},"modified":"2014-11-07T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:14:20","slug":"in-car-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/07\/in-car-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"In Car Entertainment and Car PC’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a fairly old car.\u00a0 Its a 2005 Land Rover Discovery 3 that I purchased back in 2009.\u00a0 Its a base model which meant it come without any of the frills and flash in car entertainment that the high spec HSE models come with.
\nIt has its advantages.\u00a0 It means I can upgrade what I like without meaning causing issues with other features of the car.
\nIn turn I have now replaced the head unit (for a Pioneer DAB, Bluetooth device) and then about three years ago fitted an in car PC.\u00a0 Ill detail this in another post but effectively its a ruggedised PC, with a 12v vehicle PSU (handles power cycle, starting cycle and power on\/off) and allows attachments such as GPS, Bluetooth, Video Capture, Touch Screen, A\/D Input\/Output module etc and can be used for many things.\u00a0\u00a0 Navigation, Media\/Video, Camera recording and many other things.\u00a0 You can run Linux or Windows.\u00a0 I now have Windows 8.1 and run a custom front end called Centrafuse<\/a> which controls everything and acts as the skin to control everything.
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D4 wheel with Centrafuse display<\/p><\/div>
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The PC<\/p><\/div>
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The PC innards<\/p><\/div>
\nI guess they are not as popular now cheap tablets can be had for as little as \u00a3100 with GPS, SD cards and Bluetooth to be had.
\nIts been a bit of a labour of love and very testing at times.\u00a0 I have been meaning to document it for ages and this post has made me remember this.\u00a0So I shall begin….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a fairly old car.\u00a0 Its a 2005 Land Rover Discovery 3 that I purchased back in 2009.\u00a0 Its a base model which meant it come without any of the frills and flash in car entertainment that the high spec HSE models come with. It has its advantages.\u00a0 It means I can upgrade what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carputer","category-mobile-computing","category-windows","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}